Tamar Zandberg

MK Tamar Zandber, Meretz

Tamar Zandberg was born in Ramat Gan in 1976. She holds a Masters Degree with honors in Social Psychology from Ben Gurion University of the Negev and a Law Degree from Tel Aviv University. Before being elected in the Knesset for the first time in 2013 she taught at Sapir Academic College in the Management and Public Policy department and was parliamentary assistant to Meretz MK Ran Cohen. Zandberg is activist fpr Women's rights. She also was a main activist in the social protest movement of summer 2011, and was a member of the experts' group that introduced the movement's housing and transportation platform.

After Zandberg was re-elected in 2015 as a member of Knesset for Meretz she became a member of the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee and chair of the Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, as well as co-heading the Social-Environmental Lobby. She received the Green Globe Award for her work as a public servant promoting environmental and sustainable legislation.